Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) Full Reaction

wow i know Heidi would love this one big time! interesting why i never seen this movie.. oh well.. i guess it was meant to see it now ^_^ thank you Heidi for the request and for the support!

it was Heidi's choice, and yes, we agree it was good for February!

Ever After: A Cinderella Story- I'm so happy that I could watch this movie again with you!! :) Thank you again, so much for another fantastic movie reaction, my dear friends!!! I am happy you both enjoy this movie so much! Because I absolutely love, love, love this movie!!! This role for Drew Barrymore is by far her best role she has ever played. At least, I believe so. I very much love her as Danielle. Because she's strong and fierce. And her chemistry with Dougray Scott (Prince Henry) is so beautiful! I love him in this movie too, so much! I also love Jacqueline... the good stepsister, Leonardo Da Vinci, the King and Queen, Gustave, the three other servants in the household... Maurice, Paulette, and Louise. And of course... I really love Anjelica Huston as the Evil Stepmother. She's so evil and horrible, but I love to hate her. Anjelica Huston plays Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent marvelously! The music is absolutely so beautiful for this movie too! As are the story, the dialogue, the costumes, and all of the settings and scenery. This movie is beautiful all throughout. In my eyes, there are no flaws. Also... I love that this story isn't the traditional Cinderella story we've seen and read so many times. But that it feels so real and believable too. I love that there are no magical elements throughout this movie, as Leonardo Da Vinci takes the place of the Fairy Godmother character. As he is the one who makes it possible for Danielle to go to the ball by freeing her from her prison, and by making her wings, as well as for trying to give her the courage to tell Prince Henry the truth. In regards to this movie in comparison to the original Cinderella fairy tale... Cinderella was originally written by the Brothers Grimm, who were the two gentlemen established in this movie to be the writers who come to speak with the Queen about their story of the "little Cinder girl" as the Queen calls her. As you might imagine... The original fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm is quite different from the story in this movie, as are the Disney movie of Cinderella, and all other Cinderella stories. The settings and basic stories are roundabout the same in them all, with the exception of the few movies where the Cinderella stories are set in modern times. And the overall story arcs are all very similar, but also uniquely different. Ever After in particular, And it's so beautiful! Ever After is a beautiful period piece set within the Renaissance period, when Leonardo Da Vinci was alive and famous throughout all of France. And this movie is also written and directed to allow us to feel as though this movie could be based on a true story, thanks to this movie's beginning and ending with Danielle's Great, Great Grandmother telling her story to the Brothers Grimm, and her stating how Danielle's story has grown to turn into more of a fairy tale. Sadly, this movie isn't based on a true story. And yet... I feel that it could be. Which is exactly what the creators wanted for the audience to feel. Also... The character, Pierre Le Pieu, the scum who buys Danielle from the Baroness upon her selling her to him, is a character not in any other version of Cinderella, He was an original character created just for this movie. This overall storyline between Danielle and him is only in this movie. As for the rest of this movie's story... While the basic storyline of a lonely girl turned servant of her own household, with an evil stepmother and two stepsisters, meeting her Prince at a ball, and then they fall in love, is all taken from the original story of Cinderella... From the Disney movies, and from all other Cinderella story movies, Ever After is a completely different take on the overall storyline. Making it completely its own. Which I absolutely love and appreciate about this beautiful movie!! Also... In the rest of the Cinderella stories, Cinderella has two stepsisters who are both rotten and treat her just like Rodmilla and Marguerite do. However, this is the first time that one stepsister is made to be kind and good to Cinderella, as Jacqueline is good and kind to Danielle and the others. I do believe that in two sequels made from the animated Disney movie of Cinderella... One of the stepsisters is made to become good over time as well. However, I believe those movies came out after Ever After did. So, this is the first time one of the stepsisters is actually a loved character too. And I do love Jacqueline throughout this movie very much. Like I said above... I love Danielle and Henry together. Drew Barrymore and Dougray Scott are phenomenal throughout this beautiful movie! I've seen them both in other movies, but this is my favorite movie for the both of them. My favorite scenes... I love the fight scene between Henry, Danielle, and the gypsies in the woods, especially when Danielle carries Henry off across her shoulders to save him after the gypsies' leader tells her she can take whatever she can carry, and then all of the gypsies all burst out laughing. So hilarious! Also... I love the moment between Jacqueline and Henry's Captain of the Guard at the ball upon seeing them both dressed as horses and hearing them make horse noises upon meeting and becoming drawn to one another at the buffet table. I love that Jaqueline finds love as well, and that she becomes free of her mother's and sister's cruelty as well. She and Captain Laurant are so cute together! Most of all... I absolutely love Henry's proposal to Danielle in the end once Danielle saves herself from Pierre Le Pieu. This moment between Danielle and Henry is so beautiful and so romantic. And it always makes me cry tears of joy. I love it so much! And in the end... I love seeing Jacqueline stick up for herself to her mother as she tells her she is only there for the food. So fabulous! And then... Seeing the Baroness and Marguerite get what they deserve in the end after Danielle saves their lives before seeing them becoming servants as Danielle was, is absolutely satisfying. Not only are they stripped from their titles and are made servants, but they are absolutely humiliated in front of the entire kingdom and its rulers. Poetic justice for sure. Sadly, having servants who waited on you, especially if they were Royals and all who were wealthy, was the way of the world then. It didn't make it right, but it was how everyone in the world lived at the time. So, for the King and Queen to free all of their servants and set them free, it wouldn't have been realistic or very plausible for this movie. But at least we do learn that Henry had asked his father to set the slaves who had been bound to the Americas early on in this movie free, which makes me love Henry all the more. Marvelous! :) Thank you so much once again, Marian and Joy!!!! I am so happy you enjoyed this movie! Ever After is one of my all time favorite movies!! Just so, so beautiful, and beautifully acted. As always... I enjoy your reactions very much, my dear friends. You're just so enjoyable to watch and to listen to. I love your commentaries, and listening to you both share your thoughts for every movie I love watching with you both. And I can't wait for many more movie reactions from you to come!!! Stay healthy, and be happy! :) Sincerely, Heidi

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

Excellent valentine's choice! I love this movie!

Kev